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eta: obviously not a recommendation.

Full article translation excepting references reproduced below - Fair use, given the context: https://www-dgpm-de.translate.goog/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/nachricht/long-covid-wo-bleibt-die-psychosomatik/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en German Society for Psychosomatic Medicine and Medical...

(An old study, but one that deserves to be remembered as it addresses the question of whether the increased heart rate of POTS could be caused by a fear of standing. Yes, that idea sounds ridiculous but a recent paper proposed it. Thanks to Sid for bringing this 2007 paper to our attention.)...

In a new blog series, we will investigate how illnesses were once thought to result from stress, psychological disturbance, or deviant personality features. From the cancer-prone personality to the theory of ‘refrigerator mothers’, medicine appears to suffer from a recurrent tendency to...

International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Transgenerational violence and immunological deficits, a psychosomatic hypothesis, 2022, Papazian Abstract This essay relies on the somatising identification mechanism, conceived to account for the delayed effects of projective identifications on the...

New article by @dave30th https://www.codastory.com/waronscience/long-covid/

Posts about the preprint of this paper that were on the psychologising Long Covid thread have been merged with the new thread on the paper now published.

Hi, is there anyone who can help me getting the full text of this article: https://pep-web.org/browse/document/psar.042.0217a It's an old article from a psychoanalytic journal (The Psychoanalytic review) that is not included in some databases and where a yearly subscription costs more 1000...

This is a study from Aarhus, Denmark recently published as a paywalled Letter to the Editor in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic. Aarhus University has written a press release about the study. Aarhus is by the way also where Per Fink is located and the epicentre of the Danish...

We have previously discussed interventions that manipulate how patients report symptoms as a separate form of bias, rather than as part of the placebo effect. Critics of the placebo effect have pointed out that according to the available evidence, "placebo effects are weak: regression to the...

Abstract Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a chronic disease with the hallmark symptom of post-exertional malaise. Evidence for physiological causes is converging, however, currently no diagnostic test or biomarker is available. People with ME/CFS experience...

Journal of Psychosomatic Research Volume 116, January 2019, Pages 10-16 Thierry Gendre, Guilhem Carle, Francine Mesratid, Cécile Hubsch, Thomas Mauras, Emmanuel Roze, Marion Houote, Bertrand Degos, Béatrice Garcincg Highlights Quality of life was at least as altered in Functional Movement...

Column (paywalled) by James Marriott in The Times. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lets-end-the-stigma-of-psychosomatic-illness-whfdlwhph Anyone know whether that 'a third of outpatients...' is right? Or where it's from? @dave30th perhaps? I think the article shows what we're up against...

New blog post in which Evelien and I analyze Canadian historian Edward Shorter’s view on ME/CFS. https://mecfsskeptic.com/from-paralysis-to-fatigue-a-critical-review-of-edward-shorters-view-on-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ Twitter summary:

I've not read the sample that is available. https://marcussedgwick.com/all-in-your-head/ https://marcussedgwick.com/biography/ https://twitter.com/marcussedgwick/status/1357305141733580800

Full title: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Organic Disease or Psychosomatic Illness? A Re-Examination of the Royal Free Epidemic of 1955 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33375343/

"This is also a facet in medical science — diseases are often considered psychosomatic by default until a diagnostic test or mechanism is discovered and proven, over and over again. From heart disease to ulcers to multiple sclerosis to myalgic encephalomyelitis and more, new ideas took years and...

https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/7/4/114/htm

I've just come across this article. Is it bullshit? https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-human-beast/201209/voodoo-death-i?amp

The NewScientist magazine of 6 April 2019 contains the following two articles on psychosomatic / somatoform illnesses: It’s time to change our approach to 'psychosomatic' illness Doctors have started making sense of a group of mystery conditions where people experience symptoms, but medical...